Comedy with ballet by Jean Anouilh

Artistic direction, stage version and musical illustration: Louise Dănceanu
Scenography: Gyöngyi Újvárossy Kerekes
Choreography: Andreea Csora
Premiere date: November 5, 1993

Life in Vichy is uneventful and monotonous for several members of the British aristocracy – Lady Hurf, her nieces, Eva and Juliette, and Lord Edgar – as well as for the Dupont-Dufort father and son, who are looking for alliances to revive their bankrupt banking business. The arrival of the thieves Peterbono, Hector and Gustave fundamentally changes the rhythm of this peaceful life: Hector will flirt with Eva, Gustave and Juliette will fall in love with each other, while Peterbono, foreseeing a terrible blow, will try to assign his friends the false identities of Spanish nobles ruined by the revolution. Although she detects the attempted fraud from the very beginning, Lady Hurf invites the three impostors to her villa. Peterbono and Hector are delighted, only Gustave suffers at the thought of having to lie to his beloved Juliette.

While the whole group is at the casino, where a Thieves' Ball is being held (which turns out to be a Flower Ball), Gustave decides to rob the house and leave on the spot. Unexpectedly, Juliette joins him, discovers the truth and asks him to take her with him wherever he goes. Just when Juliette is found missing and Gustave is suspected of kidnapping her, he brings her home, asleep, to spare her the life of vagrancy and thievery that they would have led together. The Intervention God from the machine Lord Edgar's help saves the entire situation and allows the young people's love story to come true: claiming to recognize in Gustave the son who was stolen from him at a young age, Lord Edgar gives his friend, Lady Hurf, the opportunity to give her consent to the marriage of the two.

Distribution:

Lady Hurf:  Simona Constantinescu
Lord Edgar:  Nicholas Thomas
Peterbono:  Petre Panait
Hector:  Nicolae Barosan
Gustave:  Daniel Vulcu
Eve:  Elvira Platon Rîmbu
Juliette:  Mariana Presecan
Dupont-Dufort Father:  Marcel Popa
Dupont-Dufort Son:  Tiberiu Covaci 
The City Hall Drummer:  Ion Ruscut
A lame man and a rheumatic holidaymaker:  Laurentiu Peev
Two jacks:  Gheorghe Iernea, Sorin Precup
Parliamentarians, Policemen, Borfas:  Alexandru Luca, Cristian Goron, Sorin Precup, Gheorghe Iernea, Ioan Szabó, Iosif Szilágyi

Technical director: Florin Popescu
Prompter: Iuliana Chelu
Lighting: Iosif Balogh, Laviniu Goron
Sound: Sorin Domide